"Measuring temperature, rainfall, barometric pressure, humidity, all of that is done here," said Nedwick.

Every three seconds a tiny device sends weather data to a software station that uploads the information to the Internet.

Nedwick has weather data dating back to the 1980s when his passion for weather began.

"I ended up getting my first weather station in 1984," said Nedwick.

While weather is a hobby for Nedwick, his work does not go unnoticed.

He is a volunteer for the National Weather Service and is part of a crucial team of observers known as weather spotters.

"For us, it's critical. They are a major piece of the process," NWS Meteorologist Chris Legro said.

There are nearly 300,000 weather spotters nationwide, and it takes very little training to get started.

"We can see a lot of things internally with our radar and with our satellites and with our forecast, but we don't have any ground truth, and our weather spotters are the people that provide that," said Legro.

Dick Waas has been a weather spotter in Berwick for more than a decade, keeping his eyes to the sky and ground.

He has four snowboards to measure snowfall. They are a combination of plywood and a metal pipe.

"This was the third most snowfall since I've been doing it, 11 years," said Waas.

Waas, like Nedwick, isn't looking for recognition. He wants to put his hobby to good use.

"I spent 30 years in instrumentation for the Navy, and so I got to know how to take the pressure and the temperature," said Haas.

Anytime severe weather strikes these volunteers are helping to keep their neighbors safe.

"When severe weather is coming down from the mountains I'll be the first one to be hit, and I can let the NWS, and therefore the public, know what's coming," said Nedwick.